An ‘Angry’ Black Girl Manifesto

Black women are allowed to have emotions, including anger

Alexis Oatman
ZORA
Published in
3 min readJan 5, 2021

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“Bitter Black bitch!”

In a heated discussion about something I can’t even remember now, the three words pierced through my ears as they slipped from my Uncle Ron’s lips.

I realized this wasn’t the first time someone tried to silence me while I was simply trying to…

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Alexis Oatman
ZORA
Writer for

Freelance writer and journalist. Follow me on Twitter @itslexdawriter.